Novelship Reviews

Not the best place for career progression as they have yet to figure out their structure. Some of the senior management has poor communication skills and would rather send passive-aggressive hints than to directly communicate with you professionally or even on a human level. The company demands a lot but gives little in exchange for the time, blood, sweat, and tears that employees put in. We don't have many benefits here at Novelship and whatever we employees have done to boost morale back again (Friday Drinks, R&R) has been swiftly shut down for unknown reasons. The company's values are pretty much as standard as it gets - they don't do illegal things and that's a good thing. But expect no compassion or understanding from upper management as their style has always been to fight first, triage later, except the fight never ends. Also, the company severely lacks empathy and did a terrible job maintaining or even checking in on their employees' mental health during the Covid lockdown. Their lack of awareness of how their employees are doing mentally and emotionally has been somewhat troubling. The turnover rate for new hires has been really high and throughout my time working here I've seen employees barely lasting a few months. This can also be attributed to the company's international team (who do tremendous work) and the bulk of interns they hire to fill up the manpower.

Chris can be seemingly unprofessional at times and let his temperament/anger get the better of him. He will not hesitate to let his anger be known through obvious banging of the tables, putting things down harshly (I am refraining from using "slamming" though I believe that's how most people would describe if they experience it) so that it is clear he is unhappy about something. Such violent tendency can be quite scary if you are the lone female staff left in the office, which is in a relatively vast industrial building, in the evening or over the weekends. Richard can at times be seemingly too disconnected from the ground as he focuses on getting the necessary funding. While that is good for the business, he does not have first-hand on-the-ground experience of what the employees are feeling, or what the customers are thinking. --- As the team is pretty lean, there's definitely opportunities to progress from a career progression/development standpoint, to take on senior leadership positions and learn new skills. However, due to the seemingly incompetent leadership among the founders, if the business can't progress faster than expected, one's career development will also be limited. C-level managers/HODs are really the backbone of the leadership. They are relatively passionate, professional, and skilled. However, in the face of incompetent leadership at the founders level, they are very much restricted as well. Culture wise, the team members had tried to create a very inclusive and fun culture. However, I severely marked it down because Values carry more weight in my opinion, and this company has no people-centric values. The proclaimed wolf culture is non-existent.